For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Paul is not attacking the flesh when he says this. The fact that nothing good dwells in it does not mean that it is evil…. Paul is not finding fault with the body but pointing out that the soul is superior to it. It is the soul which governs the body and is responsible for sin, not the flesh.
